I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook [Paperback]

Carrie Tucker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 17, 2009

There?s no doubt about it. While they may be stuck inside all day playing video games, or spending their extra money on rare editions of comic books (er, graphic novels) - geeks are chic. And why shouldn?t they be? Geeks (along with their close friends, dorks and nerds) run the world, they?re loyal as hell, and their extreme passions are fascinating. So how can women make them as passionate for their girlfriends as they are for Star Wars? Self-proclaimed geek and geek-lover Carrie Tucker expertly guides women into nerddom by categorizing and exposing men by their different geeky obsessions. Complete with a glossary for technical jargon, helpful quotes from geek-perts, and illustrations of each nerd niche, Tucker will help women bring a relationship with a geek from ?in a galaxy far, far away? into reality.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Carrie Tucker has been a staff writer for sonicnet.com and mtv.com, as well as a current contributing writer to Anthem and Filter magazines. Ms Tucker (a self proclaimed nerd) with over a decade of experience in marketing and PR writing for the music industry and lifestyle brands. She currently lives in New York with a boyfriend (a fellow nerd).

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (January 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605500232
• ISBN-13: 978-1605500232
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #860,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars great funny and amusing read!, May 6, 2010

By 

K. Cain "kc3po" (Akron, OH) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook (Paperback)

I mainly bought because my boyfriend over a year is a huge Star Wars fan and has brought out my geek side. It's funny, amusing, and I found things in there I knew, things I impressed the boy with -- not really because he saw me reading from it as I recited my new knowledge, and things I didn't know. Great book!

5.0 out of 5 stars From a slightly geeky girl for not-so-geeky girls, April 13, 2009

By 

David Ernesto Padilla - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook (Paperback)

This girl definitely knows what she is talking about. At least, from the geek boyfriend's point of view. I sincerely hope her advice will help girlfriends everywhere.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A primer, not a manual, February 10, 2009

By 

David M. Madden "nonnon/dj_webern" (salt lake, utah United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook (Paperback)

Hey ladies, tired of meatheads? Carrie Tucker, a self-professed nerd, breaks it all down for the girl who hopes to land a geek in the wild and figure out how to deal with his obsessions (i.e. don't change him, nod politely as he cries over the possibility of a Firefly movie). After a quiz to determine the breadth (and depth) of your guy's nerdiness, and a brief history lesson - from D&D to DOS prompts - each chapter defines and addresses the mindset of various genres, from Anime to graphic novels to video games to film and television to sci-fi to...sports (90-pound weaklings need some survival tactic against guys pressing them against lockers, I suppose). The absence of information on music and literary geeks is puzzling, but this is an otherwise informative primer for women sick of waking up nude in an alley after blacking out at the local sports bar.